City Of Boise

The City of Boise Department of Finance Division operates as a U.S. local government entity providing fire protection services, airport infrastructure management, affordable housing administration, and community development services to federal agencies as a prime recipient of federal grants and a prime contractor on limited federal service work. The city competes in full-and-open procurement and does not hold SBA certifications, operating in its capacity as a municipal government entity.

The City of Boise's federal footprint consists almost entirely of grant work rather than contracts. The city acts as prime recipient on 269 of 277 recent awards (97%), with the balance as subrecipient on eight grant sub-awards. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development dominates the award count at 58 grants, anchored by Continuum of Care (CoC) homelessness programs, Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnerships Program (CFDA 14.239) for affordable housing, Community Development Block Grant-PRICE (CDBG-PRICE) for manufactured housing preservation, and Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) funding. The Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration's Northwest Mountain Region follows with 37 grants focused on Boise airport infrastructure development and modernization under the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.106). The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 20 issued two small purchase orders for fire protection services at the Boise VA Medical Center ($631,355 potential value awarded October 2024, and $183,723 awarded October 2023). The Department of Homeland Security Transportation Security Administration appears as the top customer by potential value, with three awards totaling $9.4 million, though the source does not detail their scope. Combined potential value across all awards is $18.8 million, but combined obligated dollars reach $290.7 million, indicating substantial prior-year disbursements on active multi-year grants extending through 2034.

The city's grant activity spans community development, airport infrastructure, public safety, environmental remediation, and emergency response. Representative recent awards include $6.77 million CDBG-PRICE project grant from HUD (awarded January 2025, through September 2032) for manufactured housing preservation and infrastructure improvements; $16.97 million FAA Airport Improvement Program grant (August 2025, through August 2029) to construct a new 17,000 square-yard terminal apron at Boise airport; $11.25 million FAA grant (June 2025, through June 2029) for Phase 1 of passenger boarding bridge installation; $6.57 million Social Impact Partnerships to Pay for Results Act (SIPPRA, CFDA 21.017) pay-for-performance grant from the Department of the Treasury (October 2025, through December 2031) with outcome-based compensation for demonstrable social benefits; and $1.87 million Federal Highway Administration grant (August 2024, through August 2031) to deploy electric vehicle charging infrastructure and workforce development. The city also holds formula grants for HOME affordability housing (multiple cycles), recurring CDBG entitlement allocations, and cooperative agreements with the Bureau of Land Management for Ridge-to-Rivers trail system management and with the Idaho Region for community wildland fire fuels management. The FAA Airport Improvement Program accounts for the largest concentration of airport-related work, with grants funding taxiway and taxilane construction and rehabilitation, runway modifications, apron and cargo facility work, terminal improvements, aircraft rescue and firefighting vehicle acquisition, and environmental emission reduction equipment.

On the contract side, the city holds three fire protection purchase orders: a $631,355 order from Veterans Integrated Service Network 20 for fire protection at the Boise VA Medical Center (awarded October 2024, through October 2027); a $183,723 order for the same scope (awarded October 2023); and a $437,667.75 purchase order from a civilian federal agency operating under Region 10 for fire protection at the McClure Federal Building (awarded October 2021, through September 2026). The city appears on a GSA Multiple Award Schedule Basic Ordering Agreement (GS10B06504) with nine task orders, though combined potential value is minimal. SCI-reportable federal service contract invoicing totals $351 thousand across FY2022–FY2023 (no FTE reporting); invoiced rates run a median of $7,452 per hour, with a 10th-to-90th percentile range from $5,958 to $8,946 per hour, suggesting administrative or overhead billing rather than labor-intensive service delivery.

The city acts as subrecipient on eight grant sub-awards, including environmental justice project development funding from the Environmental Protection Agency through Philanthropy Northwest (June 2026), traffic safety enforcement mobilization and distracted driving awareness sub-awards from the Idaho Department of Transportation channeled to the Boise Police Department (November 2024), and forest resilience and hazard fuel treatment work on non-federal lands within the Stack Rock reserve through the Idaho Department of Lands (July 2023). The city does not name subcontractors on its prime awards; SCI-reportable prime contracts show zero sub-hours engagement.

Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is modest: sixteen awards with combined potential value of $1.8 million reach ultimate completion dates between mid-2026 and mid-2028. The city's award activity has remained steady at 12 to 14 grants per year from 2022 through 2025, with two awards recorded in 2026 (through June). The municipal structure carries capability framing in NAICS and PSC concentration: the top categories are Sewage Treatment Facilities (28 awards, likely representing utility management or facility leasing), Fire Protection (20 awards), and Lessors of Nonresidential Buildings and Real Estate Property (14 combined awards), indicating the city operates utility infrastructure, manages federal facility leases, and provides fire protection services across its portfolio.